European O2 and Vodafone Galaxy S III owners, it's finally your turn to check out Jelly Bean first hand. Following last week's updates on Hutchison Whampoa networks (Three/3/H3G), now O2 and Vodafone joined the party and started pushing out Android 4.1.1 to Galaxy S IIIs in at least the following locations:

The O2 rollout was scheduled to begin on the 19th of October, but was delayed until today, the 22nd, as confirmed by several updates to this blog post on O2's forums:

Watch out for the update notification in the next few days or load up Kies for instant gratification. As usual, you can also grab the full 4.1.1 OS images flashable with Odin at unofficial fan sites SamMobile or Samsung-Updates.

I bought the UK unbranded s3 even though I live in Canada specifically to get the update first... So carriers, who must do extra firmware testing, are receiving the update before us? That's strange and disappointing.

Matchstick

FWIU the carriers are demanding that Samsung NOT release the unbranded version till after all their versions have been released.

If that is true the most disappointing bit is that Samsung haven't told the networks to get stuffed.

grellanl

That's sickeningly disappointing if it's true - and I suspect it is; it's the only logical explanation.

Another reminder to always buy Nexus, I suppose.

Plethora

I guess the rest of us will be getting the JB update once Android 4.2 is announced